By these politicians’ own admission, their bills were targeted specifically at the three new justices on the supreme court (all appointed by Trump, though she left that unspoken too). More recently Amy Coney Barrett, another of Trump’s triumvirate of appointees, told an audience in Kentucky that the supreme court was not “comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks”. But it is the third of Trump’s supreme court proteges, Brett Kavanaugh, whose position is perhaps most glaring. When she announced her decision to back him for the supreme court, she revealed what he had said to her during private conversations. “There has been considerable … concern that Judge Kavanaugh would seek to overturn Roe v Wade,” she said.

Source: The Guardian December 05, 2021 05:45 UTC